bin/125753: cron(8) not mailing output

Schiz0 schiz0phrenic21 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 8 18:16:43 UTC 2008


On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:43 PM,  <edwin at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Synopsis: cron(8) not mailing output
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: edwin
> State-Changed-When: Thu Aug 7 01:41:49 UTC 2008
> State-Changed-Why:
> I know that during the pre-release of 7.0 various people had issues
> like these. Now that 7.0 has been out in the field for a couple of
> months, and I can't reproduce the issue on it, I'm going to ask you
> the dreaded question: Does it still happen for you?
>
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=125753
>

Yeah, I tested it again by putting the same line in my crontab:
MAILTO="root"
*/5 * * * * root echo "Hello!"

I got the same message in my /var/log/maillog about "size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0".

I'm currently running 7.0-RELEASE-p2 on a custom kernel and recompiled world.


More information about the freebsd-bugs mailing list